sudo dd if=installmedia.iso of=/dev/rdiskX bs=1m
I have had almost nothing but issues booting various distro on usb drives, why I still keep a trusty usb cdrom and floppy around. It's the only great equalizer.Last time I tried unetbootin, it wouldn't write the disk label properly on the usb drive to boot arch linux on weirdly, as just how it tends to want to boot. I just burned the damn thing to a cdrom, it worked. I still do this with arch installs.My stack of 100 dvd's I purchased 20 years ago will probably disintegrate soon before I use them all, but so far hooray for legacy technology to keep it real.Booting clonezilla in a virtualbox vm is pretty painless/quick. Download image, launch vm to boot off iso, bridge it to a laptop port, and crossover ethernet cable to whatever he wants to image or boot an install cd from, set bios on remote to pxe boot. I had a clonezilla server vm on my laptop with multiple distro boot iso's loaded like 10 years ago, I just didn't have need to use it much to keep the space it needed and updating it.-mb---------------------------------------------------On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 4:44 PM Bob Elzer <bob.elzer@gmail.com> wrote:wouldn't it be easier to create a bootable usb drive using unetbootin?---------------------------------------------------On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 4:24 PM Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:I'd check out clonezilla bootable images, I've booted a server on a vm and started imaging other vms with it before, it's pretty cool. Using the lite-server might add a quickie option to get it booted over the network. Note: this puts a dhcp on your network, which will probably conflict with your lan router, so use a crossover cable if possible or a separate switch/vlan.-mb---------------------------------------------------On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 3:43 PM Harold Hartley <wheelie207@ownmail.net> wrote:---------------------------------------------------Download an image for installing over network from whatever distro you want to use. Then burn it to cd and install on computer and it will run and connect to the the distro site and will start to install the files.On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, at 15:31, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:I've never installed _anything_ over the network.Can you give me a solid tutorial to follow?On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 11:44 AM Harold Hartley <wheelie207@ownmail.net> wrote:> __> It won’t recognize the usb ssd unless you upgrade the bios.>> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, at 11:41, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:>> The internal drive is recognized by the BIOS, but fails to spin up.>>>> The Laptop was built in 2009 by Puget Systems (https://www.pugetsystems.com/), so yes, the hardware is old, but I highly doubt it's "Too Old" for Linux. I found another USB SSD I bought the same time as the laptop, so I'm going to try and format that and see if it works as a bootable device.>>>> Trying to get CentOS 7 on it, but I'm flirting with the idea of trying Manjaro on it.>>>> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 10:50 Matthew Gibson <guanjun.de.geliqian@gmail.com> wrote:>> > Does it have the ability to boot from network? Didn't you say that the laptop has an internal DVD/CD drive? Could your install media need to be locked in some way after the burn is complete? Is the ISO too new to work with old hard ware?>> >>> > These are a few of my thoughts. I'll see if I can find my own drives to burn a disc for you.>> >>> > On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 8:57 AM Snyder, Alexander J <alexander@snyderfamily.co> wrote:>> >> I wasn't able to go to Installfest, we had guests.>> >>>> >> After they left, I went hunting in the garage and found an old DVD-R (USB). I went to Best Buyand got a few blank DVDs. So, it won't read from a 2019 USB-SSD, but it'll boot from a ~2015 USB-DVD drive?>> >>>> >> I can get into the CentOS 7 setup but it fails to verify the media, and refuses to continue. When I skip verify, it still fails by saying the media is not fit for install.>> >>>> >> So now I'm really confused.>> >>>> >> Thanks,>> >> Alexander>> >>>> >> Sent from my Galaxy S10+>> >>>> >> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 08:43 Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org> wrote:>> >>> On 2019-08-03 10:49, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:>> >>> > Does anyone have a bootable Linux CD?>> >>> > I don't have a burner, or discs. So I'm asking for help!>> >>> > Can someone burn CentOS7 minimal for me?>> >>>>> >>> Did you get a CD from Installfest? If not, I have a DVD+-RW and a CD-R>> >>> blank somewhere around here. 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